As I was brushing my teeth this morning, I got a blinding
flash of the obvious: “You need to lower your standards.” Since my
standards aren't extraordinarily high to begin with, I knew that could not mean
what it seemed to say.
I realized that I was being told to lower my ego-standards.
It is in letting go of ego-standards that one reaches God’s standard…Love.
Deep in the center of one’s being is that standard
which brings perfect peace. It is known by various names…The Golden Rule,
Service, Loving kindness are a few. The practice of any one of those can
and will bring one perfect peace, but, I've learned, one cannot practice them
in order to get perfect peace…or indeed in order to get anything.
One practices love in order to love…ah, perfect peace.
Thank you.
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